Artist: Tatiana Pentes
Plasma display 1920 x 1080 pixels at 1080 dpi
Digital print 1920 x 1080 in a vintage gold bamboo frame
Highly Commended Award Burwood Art Prize 2022
View online 2022 Burwood Art Prize Catalogue
Watch ceremony https://youtu.be/qRXINGtz9gI
Exhibition
Friday 25 – 30 March 2022, Burwood Library and Community Hub (Level 1)
2 Conder St Burwood, Sydney, Australia.
6 – 17 October 2022, Ground Floor near Concierge Westfield Burwood 2022 Burwood Art Prize
Artwork
Artist Statement
“Self-portrait with A Lady From Shanghai in Burwood Chinatown” is a digital homage to my émigré (refugee) grandmother Xenia Vladimirovna from Shanghai 1930s. A contemporary self-portrait (Tatiana) collaged with a vintage portrait of Xenia by Josepho Schick in La Concession Française de Changhai juxtaposed with a classic Shanghai Calendar Girl poster pinup. Xenia’s ghostly image haunts the trompe-l’œil wall in Burwood Chinatown, outside an imaginary Paramount ballroom 上海百樂門 Shanghai, and oriental lanterns that light up the modern alleyways, serving traditional Chinese Street Food. An old Shanghai Seagull camera floating over the electric neon reflections illuminates rain.”
Coquette: Shànghǎi 上海 : Grandmother
a vintage portrait of Xenia by photographer Josepho Schick and a classic Shanghai Calendar Girl poster pinup
TATIANA PENTES
Further reading
Coquette: Shànghǎi 上海 : Grandmother
https://strangeblackbox.net/coquette-shanghai-grandmother
Burwood Art Prize 2022 Judges:
Danella Bennett
Manager Strategic Projects, Public Art
Create NSW, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Amrit Gill
Artistic Director/CEO
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Louise Zhang
Artist – a Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist
an imaginary Paramount ballroom 上海百樂門
TATIANA PENTES
Strange Black Box 